Sentences with phrase «clumsy framing device»
Bracketed by a clumsy framing device that sees Bradley Whitford pretending he's in a documentary, ISTL begins with Hank's marriage to honky - tonk queen Audrey Sheppard (Elizabeth Olsen) and follows him through his rocky rise to post-war fame as «The Hillbilly Shakespeare».
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Luhrmann and co-writer Craig Pearce have tried to enliven Carraway's narration by using a clumsy framing device, set in a sanitarium in 1929, where Nick is instructed to write down his memories of Gatsby as some sort of therapy.